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Mathematics INDUCTION work 2023-24

Introduction
‘I felt so lost. Everyone else in my class had done it before’. There are always some students who feel like
this, so we have assembled material which some students feel more familiar with than others. We know
you have worked hard for your GCSEs, but we would like you to spend 3 hours sometime between now and
September attempting these questions. Use textbooks, online resources, clever friends as much as you like
(so long as they don’t do it for you!).
If you make a serious attempt at this you will have a much better chance of starting the course on a level
playing field.
You must hand this work in at your first Maths lesson.
You will need the following equipment for your Maths lessons:
- Pen, pencil, ruler, eraser
- A4 lined paper
- A4 folder
- CASIO fx-991EX Classwiz calculator or CASIO fx-CG50 Graphical calculator

You will be provided access to Online Textbooks for use outside of lessons.
For more details about the course, please refer to the department handbook on Sharepoint after you
have enrolled at the college.

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Bridging the gap for Y11s

• Watch the excellent videos here: https://sites.google.com/site/tlmaths314/home/gcse-to-a-level-

maths-bridging-the-gap. Pause the clips and try the questions first, before checking the solutions.

• Transition to A level Mathematics resources: Essential Skills: https://amsp.org.uk/resource/gcse-

alevel-transition-resources

• Bridging GCSE and A-level guide on pdf: https://padlet.com/av92/n302j2in449j7mid

• Make sure you have done the harder GCSE past paper questions:
https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/papers.html

• For a variety of interesting articles, challenges and puzzles, go to:

https://amsp.org.uk/students/gcse/more-maths

See next page for more tips and information to help you succeed in your Maths A level…

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Advice from 2nd year students
✓ Read over topics before lessons ✓ Keep going over the topics you’ve already done
✓ Do homework on the day it is given throughout the year, even when you’re not
✓ Use online resources for revision and pre-reading doing it in class
✓ Always be prepared for your maths lesson ✓ Do past papers!
(equipment etc.) ✓ Do Solomon papers if you run out of papers to do
✓ Revise your GCSE maths ✓ Make every test and exam count! Your
✓ Solomon worksheets are your best friend! predictions depend on this
✓ Be productive and go to your teachers ✓ Start revising early!
✓ Don’t stress!

Websites
www.TLMaths.com – Excellent videos. Click ‘A-level Maths 2017’
www.drfrostmaths.com –Excellent powerpoints on Pure, Applied & FM including
calculator guidance
www.crashmaths.com – Practice papers and mark schemes
www.pearsonactivelearn.com – Access to digital textbooks (students have personal logins)
www.mathsgenie.co.uk - click ‘new A-level’ for specimen papers, exam questions on specific topics
www.furthermaths.org.uk/edexcel-revision - excellent revision videos for Further Maths
www.desmos.com - free graph plotting website
Below are websites relevant to the old modular course but still have useful content:
www.physicsandmathstutor.com - Past papers and mark schemes, Solomon Papers,
revision notes, summary sheets, past paper questions by topic.
www.examsolutions.net - lots of video tutorials and old past paper solutions
Edexcel course specification and sample materials: Google: ‘edexcel maths spec’

Podcasts
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/secrets-mathematics - The Secrets of Mathematics
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b/episodes/downloads - A Brief History of Mathematics
soundcloud.com/damien-adams-662584563 - Women in Math
www.numberphile.com/podcast - Numberphile - Excellent podcasts including Matt Parker, Hannah Fry and James Grime

Apps

Desmos – sketch graphs without a graphical calculator

Geogebra – graph sketching and geometrical representations e.g. vectors
Photomath – take a photo of an equation and it will solve it

Enrichment and Further Reading

www.amsp.org.uk – resources, university applications, STEP, MAT and TMUA info
www.ukmt.org.uk - Senior Maths Challenge
www.furthermaths.org.uk/competition_materials
Bellos, A Alex’s Adventures In Numberland
Pickover, CA The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension
Acheson, D 1089 and All That
Singh, S Fermat’s Last Theorem
Doxiadis, A Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
Maor, E e: The Story of a Number
Clegg, B A Brief History of Infinity
Hodges, A Alan Turing: The Enigma
Stewart, I Seventeen Equations that Changed the World
Du Sautoy, M The Creativity Code, The Music of the Primes

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